Posted on 10/15/2016 5:59:35 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A century ago, if you’d uttered the word “artist,” chances are it would have been accompanied by the modifier “starving.”
Consider the tubercular waifs of Puccini’s “La Bohème” burning manuscripts to stay warm in their Paris garrets. Or New York’s Abstract Expressionists drinking nickel coffee at Depression-era cafeterias.
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Whitey must get out of California
Gentrification ... is it racist?
Sure, why not? Everything else it.
“This week, various galleries on South Anderson Street got tagged, one with obscene graffiti against “white art.”
One wouldn’t expect left wing commie apes to appreciate art.
This is a battle between the old Commies vs. the Neo-Commies.....fortified with ‘daddy’s money’. Grab the popcorn.
whites move out - white flight
whites move in - gentrification
A gallery offering works in crayon and fingerpaint is opening soon and expected to placate the natives.
screaming n*gger - noisy racism
not screaming n*gger - SILENT racism
punching looter in face - aggression
tapping looter on the shoulder - microagression
But coming in is a different kind of racism than leaving. That's called "white flight".
The professional grievance peddlers have got you, literally, both coming and going.
Enjoy the fruits of your idiody, you a-holes. Now you can see racism up close. When you encourage and support T..ds you get s..t.
Yup. The bohemians on Mission Rd and Soto are mostly white and at least they’re adding some style to their ghetto crap. Funny to think they’re right beside Vernon which is 80% warehouses. that’s a lot of art waiting for them...
Gentrification- your bohemian dollars at work. One of the great Marxist contradictions of the Universe- Phase 1. leftist revolutionary activist starving artists move into cheap rent districts. Phase 2. their neighborhood attracts coffee shops and galleries. Phase 3. neighborhood becomes attractive to hipster “let’s go slumming” element. Phase 4. hipster element morphs into Architectural Digest wannabe’s. Phase 5 low rent district becomes high rent district. This happened in San Francisco’s several bohemian districts and is now the overarching template for the entire city which is unlivable unless you have a 6 figure income. Karl Marx, your children destroy your imperfect work on a daily basis. The following is a true account that illustrates how political ideology feeds on its young from the guy who lived it:
WA what they have created is a sense of “self” characterized by
occasional signals of independent cognition, yet still connected invisibly
to group approval. the truth is that tribal social structure is regimented,
predictable and stifling. dependency bonding is infantile and anti-
autonomous. it ultimately substitutes collective bureaucratic evasion
for individual responsibility. you always end up with some overt or
covert group-think, apparat-think, collective-think. look at the
work/live space zoning struggle, for crissakes. who do you think almost
torpedoed ten years worth of bureaucratic infighting- the downtown
developers, the realtors association, the chamber of commerce? shit no,
it was a clique of artists blinded by their own exalted vision and
political imperative. i could`t believe it when i finally figured it all out.
you had to be there. i get this call from Suzanna Montana, a Planning
Commissioner who has been an artists’ ally in getting the intricate
language for a new occupancy code that allows artists to convert
industrial buildings into work/live studios. she asked me to come to a
meeting at the S.F. Art Commission where there was expected to be some
opposition to the legislation. at the meeting a representative from the
State and Local Grants program wanted to make a minor change in the
language which at that point stated unequivocally that work/live
conversions were to be allowed for arts and arts related tenants only.
this made sense to me since it was the only protection artists had
against chic industrial lifestyle entrepreneurs with lots of money taking
up all the space for their designer sweatshop/consulting businesses.
hell, they could afford both an apartment and a separate work space, just
like any other business. artists had a unique need to be living close to
their work in large, well lit spaces with freight elevators and loading
docks. i mean you do tend to lose inspiration fighting traffic across
town to get to your studio in a bad part of town at a bad time of night.
you get the picture. so this twitch is trying to convince everyone that
such an exclusionary policy would make it impossible for certain
developers of large scale artist loft conversions to get government loans
under the low income housing provisions. i argued that artist
constituency groups had been fighting for nearly a decade to make lofts
legal and affordable. Claire Isaacs, the Art Commission Director, saw
the point and steered the other members to adopt the legislation as
originally written. the matter was then referred to the Planning
Commission for their final approval and at that meeting a couple of new
characters made their appearance- the developer of Project Artaud and
the Sears Building complex, both of them large, well financed
conversions; and a representative of Art House, an arts advocacy and
grant writing organization. they again made the pitch for the language
change, trying to gloss over the fact that government loans for low
income housing required that most of the space be available to low
income families as apartments! there was a bit of turmoil among the
Liberal constituents on the Planning Commission but they were finally
able to separate the issues of low income housing and artists work/live
space and, like the Art Commission, recommended that the Planning
Commission also approve the wording which reserved these conversions
for the use of artists. the final round occurred at the Land Use
Committee of the Board of Supervisors. just before we were to speak, i
was asked into a meeting room where half a dozen men in suits tried to
get me to see the benefits of big warehouses being thriving communities
of creative energy. you had to be there. shit. 10 years of work stalled.
at a subsequent meeting at Project Artaud to break the stalemate, the
plot finally unravelled for everyone to see and it turned out that the
perpetrators behind the developers were knot of Trotskyite conspirators
from the old Goodman Building who had received approval from the Feds
for a half million dollar low income loan. these ideological cadre
hardheads had found themselves sitting on a half a million bucks that
they had to spend or lose, and by a series of feints and deceptions by
omission, were trying to push their agenda through under cover of being a
groundswell of sentiment in favor of large scale building conversions on
the part of San Francisco artists. at that time i lived in a converted
meat packing plant that four of us shared and virtually every other artist
i know of living in an industrial space has less than 5,000 square feet of
of total space. these smaller buildings would all have become prey to
wealthy architects, computer firms, owner-operator businesses of every
description, who felt the compulsion to live out their Architectural
Digest fantasy. by this time i had printed up a hundred or so handouts
with the conspiracy revealed in detail and the “developer vanguard” was
seriously losing credibility. there were an uncomfortable number of
underground Anarcho-hipsters at the meeting in a state of pissed off. we
finally arrived at a just compromise wherein the work/live ordinance
would be exclusionary, artists only, in buildings of six living units or
less, and open for low income loans for the larger warehouse projects.
why those ideologues couldn’t have thought of that earlier, i’ll never
know. had they been on Jesse Helms’ freight train, they couldn’t have
created more potential for disintegration within the arts community.
this is what i mean when i say that artists who band together for
defense are playing with unstable areas of the creative personality. we
should band together for offense, creative offense.
From http://walteralter.byethost32.com/transmag.htm
Double-tapping looter=a real solution.
So whites can’t live in the neighborhood but must contribute their taxes to support the neighborhood. Could you imagine the outrage if someone tagged a Muslim art gallery?
My husband’s father was raised in Boyle Heights. At that time it was a poor Jewish neighborhood, then the blacks moved in and now like most of soCal it’s
mostly a Mexican enclave.
Let them stew in their rot.
Sorry, I just can’t work up enough energy to care.
Artist, liberals, SJWs want to go live in these terrible areas to “help” the poor starving citizens, drop dollar after dollar making the area better, then get all bent out shape when the ingrates who destroyed it to begin with want them out.
To Hell with the SJWs that waste the money and to Hell with the citizens who continue to choose to live in slums.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
LOL.
What’s a “Muslim art gallery”? Is that really a thing?
Cave paintings...
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